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Hi i have been using my business G+ account to share my blogs, but have realised that this would have been better using my personal G+ account.

Should i now go back through those 50+ blogs and re-share via my personal G+ account eg one every 3 days or should i re-share the G+ business entry?

Thanks

Ash

Thanks for your help Jane!

I will get on to it and make the changes.

Ash

Thanks Jane

I have only just change the home page Title as i thought it might help give the internal pages a boost, but from what you say, its only likely to compete with them so i should change these back to more generic KWs on the home page?

On that note, if all my internal pages are targeting all my KWs, what should i target on the home page, previously i used more generic terms like, Personal Finance & Over 50s Insurance?

Ash

HI Jane thanks for your advice the 2 keywords are prepaid funeral plans (19th) & compare funeral plans (8th)

The site is www.over50choices.co.uk

With regards to internal linking structures please see the response i gave Cody - have you come across this before?

Thanks

Ash

HI Cody thanks for this, I will check out the IIS Server issue later as i am away from the office for  a few days, but with regards to my Internal Links, GWTs actually says that some pages have 1000 internal links and i cant find out why!

The site is built on a DNN CMS platform and somebody said that the internal links were due to the Mega Menu & Mobile menu doubling up the links, but i have never trusted this advice?

If you look at the site in google cache it shows 2 navigation menus?

Its always concerned me that every page appears to be linked to every page...?

How can i resolve this?

Ash

We link naturally to the Inner pages with variants of the keywords and continue to link via blog posts varying the key phrases.

Ash

Hello your help please!

I have 2 KWs that i have targeted Inner pages for and they have got them to page 2 in SERPs, but now its getting difficult to move them up to page 1.

Will targeting the home page with a higher authority, for the same terms, help or hinder the inner pages current position?

Many Thanks

Ash

Thanks Chris thats cleared that up!

Ash

Hi Jane, no the category page is just the "gateway" into the subject, there is only one "money" page that converts.

We are currently looking at how this section of our site works and looking at competitors that are on page#1 there doesnt seem to be a magic formula!

I think we need to employ the services of an expert to help, I have a basic knowledge but my expertise is in the subject matter not the SEO side.

Ash

Hi I have the following 2 pages:

http://www.over50choices.co.uk/Funeral-Planning.aspx

http://www.over50choices.co.uk/Funeral-Planning/Funeral-Plans.aspx

My dilema is that google sees the words "funeral planning" & "funeral plans" as the same thing, which might explain why the "funeral plan" page is not ranked v well.

My issue is that the "funeral planning" page is at category level and introduces the wider subject of funeral planning, which isnt just funeral plans, so if i 301 my "funeral plan" page i will have no where to talk about funeral plans.

My question is, Is the "funeral plan" page not ranked v well because of this or do i just need better optimisation of the funeral plan page so google is clear which is the key focus for each page?

Thanks

Ash

My site is set up like this (i have x6 categories and all are similar)

Home Page - Category - sub category - X4 detail pages

My category page provides a summary/introduction of the subject, my sub category page is the "money page" with ability to quote & buy - my detail pages provide supporting material.

What is the best internal linking strategy between these pages?

(in addition, in one category i have x6 sub categories but only one of them is a "money page", should i be linking all of these pages back to the money page?)

Thanks

Ash

When i enter a landing page (a site page) in Google KW Planner Tool it returns an interesting set of results that I would like help with please?

The first few results are relevant to that page BUT then it shows KW results that are for any page of my site.

The fact that its reporting on the whole of my site rather than just that page - does it matter? ie will google be able to work it out which is the target page vs links to the rest of my site through the site navigation?

The site had been live since June 2013 and we struggle to get on Page 1 SERPs, for most of our top themes and i wondered whether this could be a contributing factor?

Thanks

Ash

Thanks Wes

Those 2 articles are spot on for what i am looking for!

Ash

HI Wesley thanks for your advice.

On a connected matter are you able to help with whether its better to have say, 4 individual pages on one subject, with v similar keywords eg funeral plans, compare funeral plans, funeral costs, funeral calculator or should i put all the text onto one page - taking the text to approx 1700 words?

Or i could use tabs across the page just above the fold to make the user experience easier?

Thanks

Ash

Is there much google juice to be had by moving a key "money making" product up the URL structure?

For example, in this URL http://www.over50choices.co.uk/Funeral-Planning/Over-50-Life-Insurance.aspx will we gain any juice moving "Over-50-life-insurance" out of the "funeral planning" category and directly to the Domain eg www.over50choices/over-50-life-insurance.aspx  ?

The page currently ranks on page 2 and 3 for various phrases and we are looking to get to page 1 - its a very competitive set of keywords!

Thanks

Ash

Hi Vadim here is the URL for the W3C results

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.over50choices.co.uk%2F&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0

On the other URL checker you gave me the site scored 3 F's & 3 A's but i am not sure whether that is good or bad.

I queried these issues with my developer when they launched the site but was told not to worry about it, but as my knowledge has grown I am not sure whether i should be worrying about it or not!?

I have posted other questions on Moz recently about why i can see x2 menus when looking at google cache of site & why you can only see  the site in text and not the full version?

Plus using SEOTools crawler tool it shows me all the HTML coding aswell as body text when i do a keyword search?

Hopefully the W3C results will help you or someone shed some light on whether i am ok of not?

Thanks

Ash

Is having this number of W3C errors & warnings an issue and will be impacting my site's performance?

When the site was built 6 months ago my developers told me that it "was nothing to worry about", but I have read that any errors aren't good, let alone the huge number my site has?

Your advice please

Thanks

Ash

That sounds like a good compromise solution to just show the main pages reducing the links substantially whilst maintaining an effective customer experience

Thanks Oli

Ash

Hi Travis i think there is robot txt to block the crawlers in my site map for the Login issue?

With regards to the source code, i know all sites have it, but i dont why my site is showing it on the SEOTool spider search, when it doesnt show the code for any other site?

What duplicate pages are you referring to?

Thanks

Ash

Hi Oli thanks for your answer.

With the site only 6 months old and looking for as much help with rankings i wonder whether i should ditch the mega menu in favour of more google juice?

With only c300 pages & 6 core categories, navigation is easily accessible from the top nav.

I agree its a balance!

Thanks

Ash